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Degradable Polymers: Principles and Applications

✍ Scribed by Gerald Scott (auth.), Gerald Scott (eds.)

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Leaves
488
Edition
2
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

The emphasis in degradable polymers has changed since the first edition of this book. Biomedical and agricultural applications remain important topics of scientific and commercial interest in the second edition. However, an increased emphasis on composting as a means of recovering value from wastes has led to a new impetus to understand how plastics degrade in the environment and the implication of this for international standards. Polymers based on renewable resources are also a major topic in this edition but the debate continues about their long-term sustainability and ecological advantages over degradable man-made polymers.

Degradable Polymers will be of interest not only to academic and industrial scientists working on packaging, agricultural and medical applications of plastics but also to students of environmental science and legislators concerned with the effects of man-made materials in the environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-v
Why Degradable Polymers?....Pages 1-15
An Overview of Biodegradable Polymers and Biodegradation of Polymers....Pages 17-26
Degradation and Stabilization of Carbon-Chain Polymers....Pages 27-50
Techniques and Mechanisms of Polymer Degradation....Pages 51-69
Biodegradation of Aliphatic Polyesters....Pages 71-131
Starch -Polymer Composites....Pages 133-161
Polymers from Renewable Resources....Pages 163-233
Sustainable Poly(Hydroxyalkanoate) (PHA) Production....Pages 235-293
Polyhydroxyalkanoates: Properties and Modification for High Volume Applications....Pages 295-319
Biodegradable Polymers in Medicine....Pages 321-377
Environmentally Biodegradable Water-Soluble Polymers....Pages 379-412
Plastics and the Environment....Pages 413-448
Degradable Hydrocarbon Polymers in Waste and Litter Control....Pages 449-479
Back Matter....Pages 481-493

✦ Subjects

Polymer Sciences; Environment, general; Life Sciences, general; Chemistry/Food Science, general

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